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Power: Don King

Hugh Hefner | 5. When The Party's Over

Power: Don King

Sony Music

Society & Culture, History, True Crime

3.9 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Hefner retreats into his fake, perfect life in the Playboy Mansion, hoping to escape problems in his business empire and the fallout from the murder of star Playmate Dorothy Stratten. He calls on his daughter, Christie Hefner, to turn things around. Power is a Somethin’ Else production with Sony Music Entertainment. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This series contains occasional references to abuse, sexual misconduct and other topics

0:13.8

that some people might find disturbing.

0:22.7

In 1982, journalist Russell Miller stays for a while and he has lost Angelus Mansion

0:35.5

and gets a glimpse of the unusual daily routine of the Playboy boss.

0:40.0

He would call down to the kitchen and say, standard breakfast and there would be some nudging

0:45.3

between the buffers who nobody really wanted to go out and take the breakfast up to him

0:49.3

because he was always complaining about one thing or another.

0:54.1

And it isn't just breakfast that Havner likes to his uncompromising specifications.

0:59.8

In the kitchen, there is a diagram showing exactly how to make Havner's perfect ham sandwich.

1:07.4

And when it comes to gravy, and we heard this in Bobby's story too, he is very particular.

1:14.4

There was a book, an entire book in the kitchens of the mansion on precisely how to make his gravy

1:23.3

because the one thing that would really, really upset him is if his gravy was lumpy

1:28.0

and he would go into a tantrum body.

1:31.6

Anyway, the breakfast would be taken up to him and he would appear sometime after four or five

1:37.9

years in his silk pajamas with a silk robe on top and blue monogrammed slippers.

1:47.0

He is working outfit.

1:51.5

But Havner isn't doing an awful lot of work at the moment.

1:55.8

Tuesday's Thursday's Saturday's, he played monopoly with the same four friends and as Havner

2:04.9

and his cronies would disappear into the game's house and they could stay there for hours.

2:08.7

They might stay playing pinball until three or four in the morning.

2:15.6

There is every kind of pinball machine and fruit machine Havner would spend hours and hours

2:22.0

playing Pac-Man.

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